[ale] cron mail, how to STOP it.

Geoffrey esoteric at 3times25.net
Sun Oct 16 15:50:24 EDT 2005


Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sun October 16 2005 6:16 am, Jim Lynch wrote:
> 
>>>10 3,6,9,12,15,18 * * * /home/pbc/bin/yosucker >/dev/null
>>>2</dev/null 
>>
>>Little bit of a typo here.  The "2</dev/null" should be
>>"2>/dev/null" perhaps.  ;)
> 
> you know, I looked at that and thought to myself.... it MUST be a 
> typo :)
> but it was an interesting thread.. so many ways to do it!
> and thanks to everyone who answered!!
> 

well 2</dev/null is a valid syntax, but it certainly won't do we we were 
trying to accomplish.  I'm not sure when you would want to open 
/dev/null and write it to stderr. :)

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey



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